American telegram? 😂
i know its soviet technology😔
Some of these products would not exist without their American counterpart, which directly fuel their existance.
Librewolf is just a hardened version of Firefox. It would not exist without the Firefox team continuing to develop Firefox and to fix its security issues.
Ecosia primarely uses Bing and Startpage uses Google for search results. Both would not exist without the search engines backing them.
I’m not saying these are bad products and I don’t mean to criticiseze. I’m actually a librewolf user myself. I just think it is important to point out that the European label might be deceiving in this instance and might mislead people into thinking they are using something different than they actually are.
It might also not be so important. Perhaps focusing our energy on good open source projects and NGO-backed initiatives is desirable regardless of their origin?
idk food for thought
EDIT I misunderstood the post, this is what you’re using, not what you’re recommending, sorry about that!
I will still include my original comment below.Still, I use and can recommend XMPP and the provider magicbroccoli.de! Arne the admin is also a swell guy!
Bold move recommending US Signal over European Telegram!
I’d personally trust neither very much; one’s US funded and the other clearly not as secure outside “secret chats”.
But what about Threema? Or a European XMPP provider like the excellent magicbroccoli.de?
Tell me you’re for weed dealers without telling me you’re for weed dealers xD
I would rather see people use Firefox than Vivaldi. We need a more diverse browser engine market to keep the web open. More here: https://better-tech.eu/web/article/switch-browsers/
We need a more diverse browser engine market to keep the web open.
We definitely do, but it’s a tall order considering making a fully functional and daily usable browser engine is one of the most difficult programming projects to under take
At least we got Ladybird with its brand new from scratch engine coming up though! (In 2028…)
I can’t get behind a browser built from scratch with C, not Rust, considering how integral browsers are to security these days. Plus there’s the whole controversy around their pronouns and politics in coding stances.
It’s absolutely not a simple thing, but if we let the web turn into Chrome-only then Ladybird doesn’t stand a chance. For now, more market share for Firefox and Firefox-based browsers is the only argument against making websites only work in Chrome.
Especially if Chrome is bought by OpenAI or some of the other players who want to enshittify it even faster and have shown interest.
i use librewolf on PC (which is a firefox fork) and vivaldi on phone :3
Fennec or Vanadium are good alt phone browsers, too. I do my best not to use chromium stuff at all, but keep the latter around on the work profile of my phone.
Waterfox too!
Not sure it’s a good idea to recommend Arch Linux to newbies migrating from Windows; maybe prioritize Mint or similar?
this is not a recommendation post. this is what i personally use as i said in the title. i would always recommend Mint to a Linux beginner
Signal is based in California, but they’re a nonprofit.
I thought it was odd to see it in an European alternative list.
I don’t personally have issues with nonprofits or FOSS as exceptions to my own personal boycott of US companies, but if anyone is looking for an alternative to Signal, SimpleX is probably the closest analog.
It’s decentralized and funded globally. It’s based in the UK.
Decent list, but I’d recommend Threema instead of Signal
doesnt that cost money?
Awesome stuff. Also don’t forget European DNS companies like Quad9.
You can also easily host your own DNS with Unbound
And Mullvad
Do DNS make any money?
Yes, you have to pay to add a domain to the servers. They also probably use the requests data commercially.
I can highly recommend https://mapy.com/
very nice, thanks for sharing
Any good guide on RVX? I see plenty of websites of I search for revanced but I don’t know which one is the official app
i installed revance manager, through there RVX extended and MicroG. log into microg and your pretty much set (from memory)
I switched from chatgpt pro to lechat and have been using lechat for several weeks now.
It’s so bad comparitively that I am considering to just not use AI anymore.
I used chatgpt daily many times and minstral le chat is just… Incapable of understanding contextual things. It has still a long way to go before it can really compete, sadly.
It’s so bad comparitively that I am considering to just not use AI anymore.
This is the way.
I found this too and looked if there is something I could do to use chatgpt anonymous. I figured that might be better than continuing to use them in cases I expect le chat to be subpar. DuckDuckGo has an interface for this, although i haven’t figured out much ‘better’ of a solution this is. You can go to http://duck.ai/ chat anonymous with:
- GPT-4o mini
- Llama 3.3 70B
- Claude 3 Haiku
- o3-mini
- Mistral Small 3
According to DuckDuckGo (which is also US-based) your chat will not be used as training data. If someone here has more knowledge please provide it because I’m just not sure if this is much better than using ChatGPT directly except that openai doesn’t get to build a user profile of me.
i barely use AI anyway, so to me Le Chat is just as good :3
Bol doesn’t seem to ship to germany :(
no, only to belgium and netherlands unfortunatly :/
Isnt startpage american?
no :D
Seems startpage is partly owned by Americans (system1). Seems they own even more than 50%. So how can you say its eu search website?
i didnt know… its so hard to find a good search engine thats also european😭
I’ve had good results with Qwant so far, been using it for some months now.
i havent. so i’d rather use ecosia :P
Ecosia is good.
yea i switched back to ecosia instantly after learning what i just learned
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Yes, they operate under EU law. But still majority owned by american company.
I redact my statement, they are very proud to showcase and claim Netherlands due to HQ location, but correct assesment- their parent company’s parent company is majority American owned
Arch isn’t european though, it’s canadian.
The Canadian who started it has long since retired from the project. A lot of the current developers live in Germany.
